Shafiqa was only four years old when her life as a Palestinian refugee began. In 1948, Shafiqa fled her family's home in the Palestinian village of Zakaria, during what Palestinians call ‘al-Nakba’,...

Aesha Abdulrahman Abed Al Humied Abdallah, 46 years old, has been living her entire life as a Palestinian refugee in the city of Zarqa, Jordan's oldest Palestinian refugee camp. Her neighbor in Zarqa...

Assad was born in Zarqa; a Jordanian city which swelled since the late 1940’s with Palestinian refugees. Over the years, poor quality housing replaced the tents where many Palestinians once lived and...

In a blizzard that hit the region in mid-January, temperatures plummeted in Jordan to -10°C in the capital whereas lower temperatures were recorded in rural areas; this came as a violent blow to the...

“I could see the fear in my children’s eyes” said Nassra, as she describes the moment she decided to flee her family home.“It was not an easy decision, but we knew we had no option. It was leave, or...

Maram and Samer come from the suburbs of Damascus, where they owned a big house on a farm, and ran a successful furniture market. In Maram’s words ‘they lived a life of luxury”The couple would often...